Variety report that British actor Rufus Sewell is set to play the lead vampire Villain "Adam" in Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The plot revolves around the president's quest to rid the world of vampires, presented as the real conflict behind the Civil War. Co-produced by Bekmambetov with Tim Burton and Jim Lemley. The film stars Benjamin Walker as the re-imagined 16th President, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd Lincoln, Anthony Mackie as Will, Alan Tudyk as Stephen A. Douglas, Jimmi Simpson as Lincoln’s right hand man, and Dominic Cooper as Lincoln’s vampire-slaying mentor, Henry. The film will be shot in 3D starting in March, and is scheduled to hit theaters June 22nd 2012.
